More than 6,000 prospects applied for NASS last summer, and 2,250 were accepted. About 15,000 applied for appointments and about 1,250 were sworn in (about 1,450-1,500 were offered appointments). Acceptance for NASS does not ensure an offer of appointment, nor does rejection for NASS mean that you won't be offered an appointment. Supposedly about 40% of the new plebes had not attended NASS. My advice to anyone interested in earning an appointment to any of the SA's is to give it your absolute best effort all the way; there is no percentage in trying to game the system. Quite often those trying to game the system are overtaken by those who are going all out to get an appointment.